But it's yet more evidence of Trump's unfitness for office.
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Twitter only amplifies Trump's unfitness for the office he holds.
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He will have demonstrated once again his incompetence and unfitness.
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They've also pointed to his "fundamental unfitness for high office" (Gerson).
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And the damage caused by his unfitness will just keep growing.
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Such conflicts or sheer unfitness may yet doom some of them.
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But even without knowing the latest charges, Moore's unfitness was manifest.
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It was a horrendously stark reminder of my incredible levels of unfitness.
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Or you can try, and hope that HR overlooks your mental unfitness.
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So what's the right way to deal with Mr. Trump's evident unfitness?
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It persuaded virtually no one who wasn't already persuaded of Trump's unfitness.
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His unfitness for office has been so glaring as to be breathtaking.
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And, unfortunately, demonstrable unfitness for office is a hallmark of Moore's career.
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Beyond policy differences, this final debate showcased Trump's extraordinary unfitness to be president.
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He argues that is "unfitness for office that necessitates impeachment" of President Trump.
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But the deeper issue with Trump is his moral unfitness, his shifting neediness.
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That calculus may change if the President continues to demonstrate his unfitness for office.
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The clear intent was to highlight the president's shortcomings and perceived unfitness for office.
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Even some Republicans on Capitol Hill are speaking out about Trump's unfitness for office.
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Mr. Golden's political opponents held it up as proof of his unfitness for office.
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The three-member panel said Mr. Copperman had displayed "moral unfitness" to practice medicine.
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Yet the list is still extensive, which underscores Trump's thorough unfitness for the presidency.
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Twitter amplifies what made Trump an effective campaigner, and exposes his unfitness to govern.
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But that unfitness isn't limited to the obvious, headline-making antics that should've been disqualifying.
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It, too, would have a chance to demonstrate competence, or perhaps its unfitness to govern.
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There is no equivalence between Ms. Clinton's wrongs and Mr. Trump's manifest unfitness for office.
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Trump's behavior in Helsinki is, however, another vivid reminder of his manifest unfitness for office.
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Pence, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell — these men made their peace with Trump's unfitness long ago.
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It is no wonder he acts out in a manner portraying tremendous unfitness for office.
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As of right now, the chances of Pence taking any action around unfitness are extremely low.
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Trump's unfitness for the presidency extends well beyond his views on race and gender, of course.
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Voters' motives aside, we can safely conclude that the argument about unfitness for office wasn't enough.
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At the same time, Clinton's argument about Trump's temperamental unfitness for the presidency was entirely correct.
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Both Johnson and Mr. Trump amply displayed their unfitness for the presidency before getting the job.
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I'm on record arguing that impeachment should be normalized, and that unfitness for office should be impeachable.
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It will take more than further proof of that unfitness to make them move against him now.
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For our founders, the touchstone of presidential unfitness to serve was always abuse of the public trust.
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What I thought the right thing to do was to talk honestly and openly about (Palin's) manifest unfitness.
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Both Corker and Flake have also, from time to time, offered commentary on Trump's basic unfitness for office.
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And in terms of Trump's basic unfitness to continue in office, there is little need for further investigation.
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Ford's testimony could stand as a harrowing indictment of Kavanaugh's abject unfitness to sit on the Supreme Court.
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Bee lays into the cowards in the Republican party still backing Trump despite his clear unfitness for the office.
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But many of the critiques of Trump's "unfitness" have subtext — and occasionally, outright text — alluding to his mental health.
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The unfitness and unwillingness of American youth to serve show us the inherent limits of our current military manning.
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One could only hope that this might be the last grand display of his gross unfitness to be president.
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That the president fails or refuses to appreciate the distinction is the thousandth reminder of his unfitness for office.
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It is one more high-profile description of his unfitness for office and the chaos of his White House.
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Call him out for his bigotry, his mendacity, his sheer mental and emotional unfitness for the office he occupies.
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But his manifest unfitness for office does not justify an effort to get him by any and all means.
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If there's an attempt to remove Trump via the 25th Amendment, his tweets could also be evidence of mental unfitness.
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But we don't have any more proof of her physical unfitness for the presidency than we did a week ago.
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"If the charge were unfitness for office, the verdict would already be in: guilty beyond a reasonable doubt," Conway concluded.
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He continued: "If the charge were unfitness for office, the verdict would already be in: guilty beyond a reasonable doubt."
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Donald Trump has won the presidency, despite an unprecedented level of unfitness and in defiance of nearly every prediction and poll.
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Mr Moore's manifest unfitness for office has given Democrats their best chance in a generation to win an Alabama Senate seat.
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Whatever persona or good manners Mr. Trump chooses to display from now on, he can't hide his unfitness for the presidency.
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The depth and breadth of Trump skepticism among right-wing pundits was a pretty solid indicator of his unfitness for high office.
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Kavanaugh will be confirmed despite his clear unfitness for the bench, irrespective of whether you believe Ford and Ramirez (and I do).
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Steyer launched "Need to Impeach" last year, citing what he said was Trump's unfitness for office and disrespect for the rule of law.
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Ryan still has time to reclaim some of that dignity, to let the obvious truth about the G.O.P. nominee's unfitness set him free.
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The serene faith that Mueller can make Republicans do what Trump's naked unfitness hasn't done already is a blind and self-defeating one.
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But most of all she was right about his fundamental unfitness, as a matter of character and temperament, for the office of president.
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The second is Trump's complete unfitness for office based on his character and his unrelenting assault on morality, ethics, truth, norms and decorum.
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Perhaps the most disturbing portent of a bleak American future is that for all the millions of words proving not just Mr. Trump's dishonesty and unfitness to serve but also the dishonesty and unfitness of most of the people he has put in positions of authority and influence, there is no clamorous outrage that is not easily dismissed as partisanship.
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The two main topics in American public life at the moment are the Supreme Court and the basic unfitness of the president for office.
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Seeking to counter Trump by assembling a broad coalition of decency, Clinton focused on Trump's personal unfitness and racism while downplaying traditional policy issues.
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Yet with anti-Trump fervor powering the resistance, Democratic candidates for office can't just ignore the president's unfitness for office and his aberrant conduct.
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The answer, I'd suggest, is that financial markets are basically discounting Trump's rants; they've stopped treating evidence of his unfitness for office as news.
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Schiff claimed, in no uncertain terms, that Democrats had proven Trump's guilt and unfitness for office over the course of their months of investigations.
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Once Daenerys landed in Westeros and launched her military campaign, however, the show began to frame her ambition as evidence of her unfitness to rule.
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" As Vox's Matt Yglesias wrote: "The carnage in Puerto Rico is the most severe manifestation of Trump's basic unfitness for the job he currently occupies.
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The ACLU argued for a nationwide injunction prohibiting the federal government from separating families in immigration detention without a clear finding of parental unfitness or danger.
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Nothing epitomizes the new dawn better than the success Clinton and her best surrogate, Elizabeth Warren, have had exposing Trump's moral rot and unfitness for office.
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The op-ed doesn't shirk from criticizing Trump, even suggesting that his unfitness for office reaches the levels that call for removal under the 25th Amendment.
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The reality that presidential unfitness matters for investors seems to have started setting in only about three weeks (and around 4,000 points on the Dow) ago.
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Despite his obvious wrongdoing and complete unfitness for the job, the vast majority of Republican office holders in Washington are "ride or die" supporters of Trump.
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The allure of an "Apprentice" tape is the longing for a world in which both Trump's racism and his unfitness for the presidency are beyond argument.
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There are evident risks to opening the door to using the 25th Amendment to remove presidents on the basis of general concerns about unfitness or mental instability.
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Clinton, by contrast, needed to sidestep the drama while provoking Trump into the kind of front stage meltdown that might prove his unfitness as commander in chief.
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Has there been a prior event in which a candidate has so completely and remarkably demonstrated his unfitness for the presidency, in character, temperament, preparation and aptitude?
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Trump's authoritarianism, corruption, and general unfitness for office is manifest to conservative thinkers like Douthat, Republicans on Capitol Hill, and even to those who work for him.
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"We see our speaking out on our sense of dangerous psychological unfitness in a public figure as an ethical imperative, not an ethical transgression," the letter states.
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Substantial uncertainty remains, of course, but if Mr. Trump continues to provide vivid reminders of his unfitness for the presidency, such a margin would hardly seem surprising.
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In short order, Trump's obvious unfitness for office — today widely acknowledged across both parties and in the mainstream media — will become a partisan observation, something Democrats say.
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So much has been written and said about Donald Trump's manifest unfitness for office that at this point there's hardly any reason to dwell further on it.
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But even without access to the focus groups and polls the Clinton campaign had, emphasizing Trump's manifest unfitness for office seemed like a reasonable strategy to me.
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The carnage in Puerto Rico is the most severe manifestation of Trump's basic unfitness for the job he currently occupies, but it's far from the only one.
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That worry still exists, certainly, but now anyone who speaks bluntly about Trump's unfitness for office will have powerful company from the senior ranks of the party.
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The allure of an "Apprentice" tape is the longing for a world in which both Mr. Trump's racism and his unfitness for the presidency are beyond argument.
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Rep. Maxine Waters says what many are afraid to say about Donald Trump, continually calling him out for corruption and unfitness for office, and lobbying for his impeachment.
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Obama went on to goad Trump for whining like a sore loser, and for demonstrating his unfitness for the presidency by blaming others for his losing poll numbers.
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Trump's temperamental unfitness for the presidency—to control the country's nuclear arsenal—was a central theme of the Republican primary, the general election, and then the transition period.
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Bernstein, a frequent critic of the president, said during an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" that the incident was an example of Trump's "unfitness" to be president.
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It perhaps bears noting that the fact that these reports are even remotely plausible speaks to the immaturity of the Republican nominee, and his manifest unfitness for office.
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Almost as hurtful is the courtroom scene in which jokey discussions between Nicole and Charlie are quoted by their lawyers as evidence of their unfitness to be parents.
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Rather than rushing into impeachment hearings as soon as they won House control, they understood that such hearings wouldn't necessarily persuade more Americans of Trump's unfitness for office.
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Lucia Brawley: The controversy is a watershed moment for GOP Ford's testimony could stand as a harrowing indictment of Kavanaugh's abject unfitness to sit on the Supreme Court.
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Is it Biden, the candidate who has made Trump's unfitness for office the centerpiece of his campaign, one that sees removing him as the only important policy proposal?
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"If the charge were unfitness for office, the verdict would already be in: guilty beyond a reasonable doubt," Conway wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published Tuesday.
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It's that their supporters are so blinded by their dislike of the other side that they are largely in denial about their own nominee's manifest unfitness for high office.
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And wouldn't it be cruel to shatter her wide-eyed idolization of her father with an offensive question about his past sexual misconduct or general unfitness to be president?
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But, after a certain point, raking over his unfitness becomes an exercise in wish-fulfilment, because the subtext is so often the desire for his early removal from office.
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It's an absurd, intolerable situation, but that's life in America in 2018 — and a perfect illustration of how Trump's unfitness for office exerts a corrosive influence throughout American life.
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For every conservative faction, supporting Trump was a gamble — do you reach for short-term victory, even though his incompetence and unfitness might cost you in the long run?
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Ross Douthat It was just three days and a lifetime ago that I wrote a column about Donald Trump's unfitness for the presidency that affected a world-weary tone.
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All this is understandable, given the ugly and dishonest campaign Mr. Trump waged and what most Democrats still regard as his obvious unfitness for the office he now holds.
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Apart from all the hiring Trump would have to do anyhow, his offensiveness and grotesque unfitness for office is likely to lead to an unusual number of civil-service departures.
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The Donald Trump Show will go on, but it can no longer obscure the showrunner's manifest unfitness for office, and, more and more, people are tuning in to other programming.
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Highlighting Trump's manifest unfitness for office made sense when he was a candidate, but now that he's president, his personal flaws are only part of a broader, distinctly partisan crisis.
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The Trump administration is the leakiest in history, with daily exposure from alarmed administration insiders dumping a flood of sometimes shocking revelations about the unfitness of Trump to be president.
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The mechanism to remove a President from office for unfitness is the 25th Amendment, which requires a mutiny of his Cabinet, large portions of which aren't filled by permanent officials.
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" When I asked Gene Healy for his simplest definition, he said, "High crimes and misdemeanors are serious misconduct that demonstrates in officials unfitness to hold high office or to wield power.
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Rather, the big question is organizational, managerial, and psychological: Can the people who surround Donald Trump work around his incapacity successfully enough to keep his unfitness from producing a historic calamity?
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And given that Republicans made their peace with Trump's unfitness many months ago, it seemed pointless to expect their leaders to move against him unless something far, far worse came out.
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Because the book includes previously unpublished anecdotes about Trump's transgressions against constitutional governance and seemingly informed conclusions about his unfitness for office, readers should know who wrote the book and why.
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"You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office," she wrote.
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Since then, critiques of Trump's ineptness and unfitness to be commander-in-chief have only grown louder and have come from diverse members of the national security, intelligence and foreign relations communities.
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"You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office," she tweeted.
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He was sorry that, on the campaign trail, he had spoken so often about Donald Trump's unfitness for office and not enough about what Hillary Clinton would do for the middle class.
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This is particularly the case when the critique of the president isn't primarily based on physical or mental health, but rather general "unfitness" — something that can be in the eye of the beholder.
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I was hopeful because to me the tape was clear, incontrovertible evidence of his unfitness for office, evidence that even the most ardent leaders on the religious right would be unable to ignore.
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This dynamic is, currently, hurting Clinton in the polls, though earlier in the year she helped establish it by centering Trump's temperamental unfitness rather than any policy agenda at the core of her argument.
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" The statement claims that Arthur's "failure to supervise her students along with allowing students routine access to her personal cell phone constitutes an evident unfitness for Ms. Arthur to continue as a classroom teacher.
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Or would the majority party in the Senate get to make the call on pure ideological and political grounds, even if that means ignoring the legitimacy and gravity of the initial declaration of unfitness?
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"You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office," she wrote on Twitter.
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"The government is systematically separating large numbers of families based on minor criminal history, highly dubious allegations of unfitness, and errors in identifying bona fide parent-child relationships," the ACLU wrote in the documents.
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There is a small but powerful cohort of presidential advisers and cabinet members who will happily leak to the press that they continue to serve to protect the country from Trump's unfitness for office.
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In these productions, when Stanley rapes Blanche, it's the final, violent evidence of Blanche's tragic unfitness for this ugly world, and Stanley's own behavior afterwards reveals a guilty conscience about what she released in him.
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Thinning that electoral majority even further, through GOP protest votes, would be a small but useful public testament to both his unfitness for office and the lack of public confidence in his ascent to power.
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But what counted more was that, under pressure, she had shown her unfitness for the job, embroidering her financial career and hinting that, as a mother, she was better qualified than the childless Mrs May.
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I think I have proved myself as a writer deserving of a livable wage and yet I am nagged by doubts that my financial insecurity is a reflection of my essential unfitness for this field.
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The scripts to the three essays he was going to record for his series, "The Closer" — each a fiery burst of outrage about Mr. Trump's unfitness for the presidency — lay on a table before him.
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One might say that insofar as the officials resisting Trump are trying to prevent his temperamental unfitness from leading to some mass-casualty disaster or moral infamy, they are doing the country a great service.
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Sure, they decided to prop and pretty him up, a man whose unfitness for the Oval Office was never really in doubt, out of tribal loyalty, a force far too potent in American politics today.
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We should give no quarter to intolerance and injustice in this world, but we can be steadfast on the subject of Mr. Trump's unfitness for office while still reaching out to reason with his supporters.
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Examinations of the president's personal unfitness for office could extend as far back as the president's long history of alleged sexual misconduct and abuse or encompass his demagoguery, lies, and attacks on the press today.
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There are "evident risks to opening the door to using the 25th Amendment to remove presidents on the basis of general concerns about unfitness or mental instability," as Keith E. Whittington wrote for Vox last year.
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"You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office," Gillibrand replied to the president's tweet.
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The problem lies in trying to locate the essence of Mr. Trump's unfitness in the unknowable reaches of his mind, as opposed to where we can all openly see it and address it in political terms.
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Joe Biden, despite his hard-won self-branding as a champion of the working class, has entered the race with a message (reminiscent of the closing weeks of Clinton's 2016 campaign) centered on Trump's unfitness for office.
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Since the 25th Amendment was written to address temporary disability, it allows the president to announce that he has recovered — presumably Mr. Trump would do so immediately — and force a congressional vote on the finding of unfitness.
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As much as we are served chaos inside of mayhem wrapped in discombobulation on a daily basis from this White House, we should have faith that our democratic institutions will withstand the unbounded unfitness of this president.
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Their base wants impeachment, Republicans want to talk about impeachment, the media likes impeachment stories, and Trump's conduct and unfitness for office are obviously the central issues in American politics and can't just be swept under the rug.
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Franken unexpectedly wins the White House by promising to eliminate ATM fees, but is quickly forced to resign because of his bizarre behavior during the inauguration, which leads to the revelation of diaries revealing his unfitness for office.
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In a typically jovial acceptance speech that would have sounded alarm bells to his many detractors — who feel his jokey demeanor masks a fundamental lack of seriousness and unfitness to lead — Johnson acknowledged the widespread reservations about his victory.
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The problem with setting expectations this year is that the Trump campaign wants to game them not to get credulous praise for his debating skill, but to trick the media into glossing over his manifest unfitness for public office.
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And humane enforcement bounded by due process unquestionably is part of the mix — as long as it never separates families without a judicial determination of unfitness, or holds anyone for longer, or in worse conditions, than the law requires.
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Perhaps he does it to distract from the abysmal political environment of his Republican Party due, in large part, to his unfitness to lead this country and his inability to show or govern with empathy, sensitivity, or common sense.
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It's not hard to see why his critics point to his Twitter feed as evidence of instability and unfitness to hold America's highest office: rages, lies, vindictiveness -- it's all there for the world to see, as is dangerous egomania.
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Instead, in backing Mr. Starmer, 57, the party's members appear to be putting a premium on management experience and electability, after a landslide victory for Mr. Johnson that many blamed on Mr. Corbyn's unpopularity and perceived unfitness for office.
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Instead, in backing Mr. Starmer, 57, the party's members appear to be putting a premium on management experience and electability, after a landslide victory for Mr. Johnson that many blamed on Mr. Corbyn's unpopularity and perceived unfitness for office.
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Yet the bigger story of this Election Day is a nation on the brink, with Donald Trump's victory improbable but still possible despite his manifest unfitness for office and the danger he poses to our democracy and the world's stability.
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And I don't just mean that they should be grateful to see Trump displaying his unfitness for office, which has long been clear to close observers, in such a dramatically unhinged way that only cultists can fail to see it.
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It's not just Donald Trump's volatility, or the unfitness of his cabinet appointees, or his possible collusion with Russia, or the certain prospect that everything from health care to quality education will soon be inaccessible to great numbers of Americans.
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"The government is systematically separating large numbers of families based on minor criminal history, highly dubious allegations of unfitness, and errors in identifying bona fide parent-child relationships," the ACLU said in a filing to a federal district court in San Diego.
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" As Gartenfeld told me: "Ida is foremost in a tradition of women artists who have used the trope of unwellness or unfitness, in a culture that favors hyper-productivity, as a subjective position that can present new and critical forms of images.
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The white New York City police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in an apartment in the Bronx in 2012 demonstrated "a total unfitness" to keep his job, a prosecutor said at the beginning of the officer's disciplinary trial on Tuesday.
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The network had so much riding on the idea of Biles's upbringing — and the idea that she had to overcome the unfitness of her biological parents on her way to gold medal glory — that Trautwig was unable to leave the narrative behind.
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Recall activists say the governor has also displayed legally defined unfitness for office, incompetence or neglect, including use of public money for political ads and a veto of judicial-branch funding that he described as punishment for court rulings in favor of abortion rights.
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"You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office," Gillibrand, who a day earlier had said Trump should resign from office, wrote on Twitter.
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But the only time Game of Thrones argued her longing for power was a sign of her unfitness as a ruler was when it needed to retroactively create a situation where Dany would end up as the worst possible ruler for the Seven Kingdoms.
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As for the third pillar in what had initially been an effective three-part pressure strategy — focusing on the Pyongyang ruling clique's unfitness to govern the North Korean people — that also has been negated by the personal rapport between the dictator and the American president.
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"A weak man, without force of character enough to make personal or political foes, his nomination aroused a host of indignant protests against it, because of the unfitness of the nominee," The Times's Washington correspondent (most likely James W. Simonton) said in a news dispatch.
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The Constitution provides no guidance on what it would mean for the president to be unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office, and it does not require any kind of trial in Congress to fairly evaluate whether the declaration of unfitness is true.
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The film's relationship with such lived realities is tenuous at best.) When not demonstrating his unfitness as a caregiver for his charge, Milo (Joseph Seuffert), Mark draws Tom of Finland-like doodles and has S-and-M-tinged fantasies about a figure he calls Leather-Man.
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But the clearest example of Chaffetz's unfitness for a prestigious Ivy League fellowship came in 2015, when he plucked this extremely deceptive chart from the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life and used it (unsuccessfully) to sandbag Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards during a congressional hearing.
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This means that the president's unfitness is not really a Harvey Weinstein-style "open secret," an awful reality known to insiders but kept from hoi polloi, as The Atlantic's James Fallows suggested this week amid the mania over Michael Wolff's gonzo inside-the-White-House book.
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I still think somebody should primary the president, both as a protest against his unfitness and a means of beginning the necessary debate within the party about how its future leaders — the Tom Cotton-Nikki Haley ticket, or the Ivanka-Rubio Duumvirate — might make conservatism great again.
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" (The specific terrible things cited vary, but they include obstruction of justice episodes described in the Mueller report, bigotry, corruption, policies like family separation, and general unfitness of character.) The other side's position: "Impeachment will fail to remove Trump, so it's pointless, and it also could hurt Democrats politically.
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As it turns out, the legislation that Trump might enact, though radical, is only a medium-sized story compared to more basic facts like his disdain for democratic norms and his temperamental unfitness for public service—just how dangerous it would be for him to be the president.
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As a conservative who opposed Trump, attacked the party for nominating him, argued that he could reasonably be removed from office for unfitness, and generally regards the G.O.P. as a broken vehicle for serious policymaking, I am pretty close to the target audience for the Rauch and Wittes argument.
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Because even if a lot of people are willing to believe that the anonymous official is telling the truth, there are a lot of other people out there who aren't — and another anonymous report about Trump's unfitness for office doesn't do anything to solve the problem it's identified.
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Citing, among other considerations, the fact the Netanyahu heads a caretaker government, Mandelblit found that "the issue of temporary unfitness for office should be left in the public-political realm (as) there is no place for an attorney general's decision at this time," the ministry said in a statement.
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Michael Gerson, who served as a deputy assistant and director of speechwriting in the Bush administration, writes that Trump's personal conflicts with his advisers, aides and lawmakers in his own party should concern leaders that Trump's "unfitness" to serve as president could do permanent damage to the country.
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" Gillibrand, who an aide said was in a morning Bible study session when Trump posted his message, responded shortly after, tweeting: "You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office.
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His behavior in the last couple of days highlights the unfitness: an irresponsible provocation of the Muslim world; a lie about NBC News making up stories; a ridiculous new claim that the tape of him bragging about molestation is a hoax; an insult at a ceremony to honor Native Americans.
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Sarah Kastelic, the executive director of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, said that ICWA acknowledges important familial and tribal bonds that have long been disregarded, and that Native ways — such as extended families living under the same roof — have often been used to show unfitness in child welfare proceedings.
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As he made his way from Charlotte to Raleigh, finding time to tip a waitress twenty dollars for a milkshake, Biden defended Clinton's transparency in disclosing information about her medical history, and attacked Trump for his lack of disclosure in almost every area and for his general unfitness to be President.
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Republicans won the presidency on November 8 because Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in states with more than 270 electoral votes between them; but Trump will be president instead of anyone else first and foremost because Republicans nominated him, despite widespread awareness within the party of his aberrance and unfitness for the office.
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Clinton's fainting after an event became ultra-potent catnip in the alt-right media, who howled at her unfitness for office, feeding bizarre conspiracy theories and disqualifying her in the same way that Trump tried to trash Megyn Kelly after her take of Trump's myriad statements denigrating women during a Fox News debate.
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Opinion Columnist When the Democratic leadership was finally forced to formally back an impeachment inquiry, they faced a choice: focus broadly on all of Donald Trump's corruption and unfitness, which could drag on for a long time, or focus narrowly on the new revelations about Trump and Ukraine and do so quickly.
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But liberals need to accept that the strongest case for removing Trump from office is likely to remain a 25th Amendment case: not high crimes and misdemeanors, not collusion with the Russians, but a basic mental unfitness for the office that manifests itself in made-for-TV crises and self-inflicted wounds.
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I would suggest that a major source of our unease — beyond Trump's personal unfitness for the presidency — is not that Trump is going to attempt to construct some fascist-style dictatorship, but rather that the trends that are manifested in his triumph represent a threat to our democracy that has arrived from an unexpected direction.
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To its most cynical adopters, like Senator Marco Rubio, the mantra was little more than a rallying cry for his own ailing campaign—an attempt to harness genuine anti-Trump sentiment on the right, less for the purposes of making Trump's unfitness for the presidency evident than to press a momentary advantage against Ted Cruz and other Republican rivals.
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This judicial preference for a traditional family echoes a ruling from 2002 in which Roy Moore, Alabama's controversial chief judge, wrote that "the homosexual conduct of a parent … creates a strong presumption of unfitness that alone is sufficient justification for denying that parent custody of his or her own children or prohibiting the adoption of the children of others".
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If Trump does not force Putin to account for this criminal cyber act of war against the sanctity of our democracy, against our institutions that run elections and against individual American voters, the president's unfitness for office, his incapability to keep America safe and his inability to lead effectively will be crystal clear to the world.
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Mr. Betras, who recently stepped down as Democratic chairman of populous Mahoning County, said that while Democrats in Washington harp on President Trump's unfitness for office, his taxes and possible impeachment, the president is solidifying blue-collar support through an aggressive trade war with China, even if his tariffs mean economic pain in the short term.
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"I write specially to state that the homosexual conduct of a parent — conduct involving a sexual relationship between two persons of the same gender — creates a strong presumption of unfitness that alone is sufficient justification for denying that parent custody of his or her own children or prohibiting the adoption of the children of others," the opinion read.
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That Senator Warren was silenced for reading a letter from the civil rights leader Coretta Scott King that spoke to the unfitness of Senator Jeff Sessions to be attorney general because of his use of "the power of his office as United States Attorney to intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens" is outrageous.
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These acts include (but are not limited to) the apparent obstruction of justice offenses outlined in the Mueller report, the corruption involved in Trump's continued ownership of his business while president, his seeming violation of campaign finance law with hush money payments, his bigotry, the administration's family separation policy, and general erratic behavior and unfitness of character.
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Right now, though, I will be boring in my sincerity: I respectfully ask Mike Pence and Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to reconsider their support for a man who never should have had his party's nomination, never should have been elevated to this office, never should have been endorsed and propped up and defended by people who understood his unfitness all along.
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"I write specially to state that the homosexual conduct of a parent -- conduct involving a sexual relationship between two persons of the same gender -- creates a strong presumption of unfitness that alone is sufficient justification for denying that parent custody of his or her own children or prohibiting the adoption of the children of others," he said in one of the opinion's more tame passages.
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There are so many things that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump conversation with foreign leader part of complaint that led to standoff between intel chief, Congress: report Pelosi: Lewandowski should have been held in contempt 'right then and there' Trump to withdraw FEMA chief nominee: report MORE does on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis to demonstrate his unfitness for office that the country's head is spinning.
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" Referring to the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, HHS said the 2016 letter sent by Obama administration health officials to state Medicaid directors "had said that states that attempted to protect the integrity of their program standards by disqualifying abortion providers from their Medicaid programs would come under CMS scrutiny, and would be required to present to CMS evidence of criminal action or unfitness to perform healthcare services.
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To simplify, what happened next was: Essentially, a butterfly flapped its wings in Kyiv five and a half years ago, and now there's a tornado in Washington, DC. All year, many Democrats have grown hoarse from shouting that Trump should be impeached for so many reasons: the apparent obstruction of justice offenses outlined in the Mueller report, the corruption involved in Trump's continued ownership of his business while president, his seeming violation of campaign finance law with hush money payments, his bigotry, the administration's family separation policy, and his general erratic behavior and unfitness of character.
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